As Governor Daugaard begins dog-and-pony-showing the results of his Workforce Summits, newly Hillsified Seth Tupper takes a look at the tight labor supply in Rapid City. Predictably, we get some smoke about how far a dollar stretches in South Dakota.…
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The Bakken oil boom is making North Dakota rich! Too bad its universities are falling apart: Students returning this week will attend classes in buildings without adequate ventilation or fire detection systems and in historic landmarks with buckling foundations. A…
The Walker and Bosworth petition frauds suggest the need to change our election calendar to allow more time to review nominating petitions. Our North Dakota neighbors just voted to change their calendar for ballot measure petitions. In last week's primary,…
An eager reader forwards this article showing how Medicaid expansion is good for Dakota people... North Dakota people, that is: The company providing coverage for North Dakota's Medicaid expansion told state lawmakers Wednesday that many residents who haven't seen a…
The annual Atlas Van Lines moving survey gives an estimate of each state's net migration. South Dakota beat Minnesota in the ratio of folks moving in versus folks moving out, but both states lost more than they gained: In Minnesota,…
As I come out of the recent deep-freeze to return from a longer-than-anticipated holiday hiatus (for no other reason than I didn't stay particularly connected to my laptop while I was eating Christmas dinner and ringing in 2014), I read…
When I first read about Daugaard Chief of Staff Dusty Johnson's comments contrasting the economic growth of the two Dakotas last week, I was puzzled as to why Johnson would think it necessary to tear down our northern neighbors' Bakken…
Two reasons to hope the geologists are right and that fracking the Bakken won't expand from North Dakota to South Dakota: 1. The feds just designated Williams County, at the heart of the North Dakota oil patch as a "High…